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Administrative features let you control and customize FirstSearch

Web-based administrative tools let you manage every aspect of your FirstSearch account and how it integrates with other library services. You can meet the needs of your customers, your staff, and your budget with a host of customization options that control what content, features and links are available.

You can also make cosmetic changes to the interface, such as adding your logo and changing color schemes. And at a glance, you can monitor key information such as database searches remaining, subscription expiration dates,and usage trends.

The administrative interface even reminds you of customization options, and links you directly to the appropriates screens where changes are easily implemented.

Overview: What you can do in the WorldCat Services Administrative module

Manage all authorizations

Control user and administrative access to FirstSearch for your consortium, subgroup or institution, including your:

Libraries subscribing additionally to the WorldCat database as part of their FirstSearch package can also create custom library groups. Your users can then limit their search results to libraries in your defined group.

Resources connected by OpenURL links, with control of icons or text displayed

Online booksellers or information partners

Translation via Linguistic Systems Inc.'s Select Translation Service

Web search engines

In many cases, linked content is presented inside a FirstSearch frame with a Return button.

Monitor your usage

View usage statistics from the most recent 25 months to help you track user capacity and evaluate which databases are searched most often. Statistics may be viewed at the consortium, subgroup and institution levels, and include data on authorizations, sessions and turnaways, searches, documents ordered and port capacity/limits. This helps you:

Make adjustments to how you buy databases or journals, or to the number of simultaneous logons you have purchased